Neocons join the lynch mob for ‘arrogant’ Rumsfeld

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THE American defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, should be sacked, according to a growing chorus of conservative commentators who want him replaced by a figure with wider appeal.

In a seemingly innocuous Thanksgiving message to readers last week, William Kristol, the neoconservative editor of The Weekly Standard magazine, slipped in a surprise demand for Rumsfeld’s dismissal.

“What remains to be done is to announce new leadership for the department of defence,” wrote Kristol. “This, surely, would be an important opportunity for a strong, Bush-doctrine-supporting outsider, someone who of course would be a team player, but someone who could also work with the military and broaden support for the president’s policy.”

Boiled down, this meant: almost anybody but Rumsfeld, whose performance has not always matched his swagger. His failure to install enough troops on the ground after last year’s invasion of Iraq has upset American generals and alienated supporters of the war.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1378195,00.html

[cavanaghjam]

1. Rummy's not going anywhere.

He and Cheney are joined at the hip. He's the one who brought Cheney into the WH in the Ford administration.

[Erika]

2. This Arrogant jerk costs many lives

but Bush view's them as a cheap commidity. So who knows?

[Fovea]

3. Yes

Say it with me...
Ah-nold! Ah-nold! Ah-nold!
He has been in a lot more war scenarios than Rummy, and many of them were on budget, and did well at the box office.

As long as we are going to have Chicken Hawks over the Pentagon, might as well be rich and entertaining ones.

[hatrack]

4. Sorry, Bill. Bush used you, and now doesn't have to listen any more

Rumsfeld will go out feet-first when he goes. You got what you wanted, Bill - four more years. Revel in it.

[Demeter]

5. I for one Wanted Him Gone 4 years ago!

Problem is, who are they going to offer as an alternative?